Victoria Glidden devotes a substantial portion of her practice to health care reimbursement, including regulatory compliance standards, and to the collection of commercial and consumer debts.

Ms. Glidden represents medical providers in recovering the amount due from third party payers and health plans, under state statutes and at the patient level. She also assists providers with charity care and community benefit policies, procedures and best practices. As needed for discharge planning, Ms. Glidden prosecutes guardianship cases.

Her practice also includes representing creditors and bankruptcy trustees in proceedings throughout the state of Illinois.
Ms. Glidden’s representative clients include OSF Healthcare System, Freeport Memorial Hospital and Freeport Regional Health Care Foundation, Midwest Medical Center, Kawasaki Motors Finance Services Corp. and State Bank of The Lakes. Before joining Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in November 1989, Ms. Glidden was a staff attorney for Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, responsible for the collection of student loan accounts.

Ms. Glidden is a member of the Leading Lawyers Network Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Leading Lawyers Network, recommended by her peers in a statewide survey to be among the top lawyers in the state of Illinois in Commercial Collection Law. In 2010, Leading Lawyer Magazine Women’s Edition included her in their list of the Top 50 Women Downstate lawyers. In addition, she holds the BV® Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell for ethics and legal ability.

Ms. Glidden is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys and the Winnebago County Bar Association. Ms. Glidden often speaks at Winnebago County Bar Association seminars and Hinshaw seminars on issues relating to her areas of practice. Her presentations have included:

• “Guidance for Assessing and Addressing Community Health Needs to Stay Tax-Exempt,” Hinshaw’s Annual Healthcare Conference, Lisle, Illinois, November 2011.
• “Tax Exemption After Health Care Reform and Provena,” Hinshaw’s 2010 Health Care Conference, Lisle, Illinois, November 2010.
• “Managed Care Contracting Issue or Illinois Hospital’s Uninsured Patient Discount Act (Charity Care Update),” Hinshaw’s 2009 Health Care Conference, Lisle, Illinois, November 2009.
• “Form 990 Compliance,” Hinshaw’s 2008 Health Care Conference, Lisle, Illinois, November 2008.
• “Obtaining and Maintaining Property and Sales Tax Exemptions,” Hinshaw’s 2007 Health Care Conference: Current Issues Affecting the Governance and Management of Hospitals and Health Systems, Oakbrook, Illinois, November 2007.
• “Wage Assignments, Wage Deductions and Support Orders,” and “Health Care Law Update,” at Hinshaw’s 2005 Breakfast Seminar Series, Rockford, Illinois, March 2005.

Ms. Glidden has written articles in a variety of publications. She regularly contributes to Hinshaw client alerts. A selection of her publications includes:

• “Illinois Supreme Court Rules Common Fund Doctrine Does Not Apply to Health Care Services Lien Act,” Hinshaw Health Law Alert, April 2011.
• “President Barack Obama Appoints Dr. Donald Berwick to Head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,” co-author, American Health Lawyers Association Email Alert, July 2010.
• “Mental Health Parity Interim Regulations Upheld by Federal District Court,” co-author, American Health Lawyers Association Email Alert, July 2010.
• “Health Care Reform Increases Federal Tax Exemption Requirements for Hospitals,” co-author, Hinshaw Health Law Alert, April 2010 (republished on Martindale.com, April 2010).
• “Illinois Hospital Uninsured Patient Discount Act – SB 2380,” Hinshaw Health Law Alert, March 2009 (republished on Martindale.com, March 2009).
• “Form 990 Released on December 20, 2007 Includes Significant Changes to Schedule H for Hospitals,” Hinshaw Health Law Alert, January 2008.
• “Illinois Governor Signs Fair Patient Billing Act,” co-author, Hinshaw Health Law Alert, July 2006.
• “Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission Adopts Medical Fee Schedule Applicable to All Medical Treatments and Procedures Rendered On or After February 1, 2006,” Hinshaw Health Law Alert, February 2006.
• “Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act Amended to Prohibit Balance Billing and to Stay Collection of Accounts with Claims Filed Before the Industrial Commission,” Hinshaw Health Law Alert, August 2005.
• “New Fairness in Contracting Act Affects Illinois Insurers, Providers and Beneficiaries,” Hinshaw Health Law Alert, March 2004.